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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What period is covered by Chapter 1?
(a) 1930s to 1944.
(b) 1980 to 1985.
(c) 1920s to 1930s.
(d) 1944 to 1951.

2. Who visits Vladek before he moves to Anja’s town?
(a) Anja’s brother.
(b) Lucia’s brother.
(c) His father.
(d) Lucia.

3. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(b) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(c) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.
(d) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.

4. What happens to disturb Vladek and Anja’s peace in 1939?
(a) Anja is sick.
(b) Vladek is drafted.
(c) Richieu dies.
(d) The factory burns down.

5. How often do Vladek and Anja see each other once Vladek’s father-in-law’s business plans for Vladek come through?
(a) Every other week.
(b) Every six months.
(c) Every month.
(d) Irregularly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vladek and Anja’s reaction to Vladek being drafted?

2. How old is Art Spiegelman at the beginning of the memoir?

3. What is Artie's father doing while he is telling Artie his story?

4. What experience does Art Spiegelman’s father contrast with Art’s experience of his friends skating away when his skate broke?

5. How does Artie’s father characterize the situation for the Jews in Germany in 1937?

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